Question 1
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Fossils preserve traces of life that can outlast the organisms by millions of years.
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Human cultures, origins, and diversity.
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Question 2
What is what people believe about which ways of speaking sound 'proper' or 'wrong' called?
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Language ideology often hides power: ideas about 'proper' speech can justify hiring or schooling bias, even though every dialect has its own consistent grammar and rules.
Question 3
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Excavation destroys context as it uncovers it, so recording is part of the evidence.
Question 4
Ancient technology can travel between groups and change in ...
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When skills like metallurgy or farming spread, people often tweak materials, tools, and timing to fit local soils and climates, which is why the same idea can look very different archaeologically.
Question 5
What can make one accent seem educated and another accent seem careless?
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Accent prestige often follows power: the way elites speak gets labeled "clear" or "proper," while similar pronunciations in marginalized groups get heard as "lazy" or "sloppy."
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